Thomas Paine’s pamphlet, Common Sense, begins with the creation of government, as lived by the colonist, and progresses to the wrongful acts administered by Parliament and the King of England. Thomas Paine explains how the colonies began governing themselves and how an appointed King did not necessarily have the people’s values in mind. This groundwork laid the path for the argumen

t against the British government to take place. It is portrayed that the people of the colonies existed in harmony and dealt with their own problems in ways that conformed to the majority. Paine explains how disruptive it is for a single man, a King, to rule and govern a colony hundreds of miles away. This is very obvious and logical. “To be always running three or four thousand miles with a tale or a petition, waiting four or five months for an answer, which when obtained requires five or six more to explain it in” (24). To worsen the situation of the King, Paine also discusses the existence of heredity succession in a monarchy. “To the evil of monarchy we have added that of hereditary succession; and as the first is a degradation and lessening of ourselves, so the second, claimed as a matter of right, is an insult and an imposition on posterity” (13). This statement explains how the first King or chosen King might better society; however, there is no guarantee that his oldest son or brother has any integrity. The King succession rule distances the colonies each time it is implemented because the colonies are that much more forgotten. The King, as well as England, begins to forget English men even inhabit the colonies. The colonists are consistently being stuck with wrongful governing and no election power. “In America the law is king”, but under England the colonies must respect the “King as law” (29).

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense portrays the unjust treatment received by the colonies from the mother country, England. The government failed to protect their rights and violated their rights. It then becomes no longer necessary but intolerable; therefore, the people have the right to overthrow their government and replace it with one that will respect their rights. Common Sense ventures towards the argument about the peace at mind and military protection provided by the mother country. England gives excuses for the taxes and rulings because of the safety factor they preserve for the colonies. Paine handles this argument by describing the t

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